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The Notability app remains a simple notes app to use while having enhanced document features like text wrapping pictures. We all have favorited note taking applications on our iPads. Some use ones that keep the handwritten notes in digital ink, others are for typing with heavy cloud storage like Evernote and there is a group [...]

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There is almost unlimited quantities of quality information through an iPad when planning a trip or adventuring around town. There are sites you can access and apps that contain information to enlighten and help make decisions to turn left or right. Many of these solutions require an Internet connection to get to data. Services like [...]

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Photo manipulation apps for the iPad are starting to get much more useful than trying to do the same process on the desktop. Today’s hot find is TouchRetouch HD, an app that allows you to removed the bits in photos you don’t want. But instead of leaving a whole in your photo, it automagically replaces [...]

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Be fore warned, we will be mentioning the Newton below. No, we wont be saying that the iPad is a ‘new’ or a ‘big’ Newton. We are just saying that the Newton had some features that we have missed with the handhelds we have used at work since the late 90′s. A few things we [...]

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There has been a lot of press lately around the announcement that Wired Magazine’s iPad version sales have dropped way down. Every site has their opinion… most say that the electronic versions of magazines should be free or just a couple cents since distribution is less than cutting down a tree to make the print [...]

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Today, the big news is that Skype has released a new version of their iOS app that now included video conferencing. You may be saying, “I have a iPhone and it has FaceTime already”. Yes, that is true, but it only works over WiFi and the desktop side is rather limited… Apple will ‘fix’ all [...]

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Until Apple rolls out their new ‘self mending’ metal, placing your iPad on the table or in/out of a bag will still result in little scratches on the back surface. We had mentioned a variety of cases used by folks here but more times than not people just put a vinyl skin on the back. [...]

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